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The first steps toward building President Barack Obama’s library and museum were
announced in January 2014 with the launch of a foundation to oversee the
competitive selection process with the target date of picking a site early in
2015. Incorporation papers for the newly
created Barack H. Obama Foundation were filed Jan. 31, 2014 in Washington, D.C. In May, the
foundation will issue “Request for Proposals,” which is the call for
comprehensive packages to be submitted with a decision made by the start of
2015. Lynn Sweet http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/25302166-418/foundation-launched-to-pick-site-for-obama-presidential-library.html
Obsolete words
limbeck to wear yourself out in your effort
to come up with a new idea.
magnolious a slang word for great, splendid,
magnificent.
grate pleasing.
It is the root for the word grateful .
in the
mebby-scales to waver between two
opinions. http://obsoleteword.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Library Consortium Tests Interlibrary Loans of e-Books
by Jennifer Howard Duke University’s libraries lend printed
books to students and faculty members at other institutions all the time via
interlibrary loan. But the university’s
900,000 e-books are off limits to anyone beyond the campus. Robert L. Byrd, Duke’s associate university
librarian for collections and user services, would love to lend out those
e-books. But he can’t even share them
with users at nearby North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State
University, or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Because of technical and licensing
restrictions, library patrons at those universities—Duke’s partners in the Triangle Research Libraries Network—can see e-books in
the library catalog, but they must visit Duke’s campus to read them. Worried about security and sales, many
publishers and vendors permit individual e-book chapters to be shared but don’t
routinely include the lending of whole e-books in library contracts. Even when licenses do allow e-book lending,
libraries typically lack the technology to make it work. But lending e-books may soon get easier. This
spring a pilot project called Occam’s Reader will
test software custom-built to make it both easy and secure for libraries to
share e-book files while keeping publishers happy—or so the software’s creators
hope. The Greater Western Library Alliance, a consortium of 33 academic libraries,
came up with the idea. Developers at Texas Tech University and the University
of Hawaii-Manoa, both members of the alliance, created the software, and the
publisher Springer agreed to let its e-books be guinea pigs in the experiment.
Scheduled to begin in
March 2014, the pilot will run for a year. If it works well enough, the library alliance
hopes to make Occam’s Reader available to other academic libraries and perhaps
to persuade other publishers to join in.
http://chronicle.com/article/Library-Consortium-Tests/144743/
A metaphor, as defined in our glossary, is
a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two
unlike things that actually have something important in common. The word metaphor itself is a metaphor, coming from a
Greek word meaning to "transfer" or "carry across." Metaphors "carry" meaning from one
word, image, or idea to
another. Life is a journey is a familiar metaphor used in advertisements and
poetry. Richard Nordquist See examples and link to 99 metaphors of love
at http://grammar.about.com/od/qaaboutrhetoric/f/faqmetaphor07.htm
AN
OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 The Project Gutenberg Etext [This was the #1 rated Twilight Zone episode
of all time] #2 in our Ambrose Bierce
series http://archive.org/stream/anoccurrenceatow00375gut/owlcr10.txt Find Ambrose Bierce biography and
bibliography at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ambrose-bierce
Occurrence at Owl Street Ridge, 1999 by John Shirley (b. 1953) appears
in Strange Attraction, ed. Edward E.
Kramer, Bereshith/ShadowLands Press 2000
Find John Shirley Web site at http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/
Pun-based titles, such as Occurrence at Owl Street
Ridge, are frequent. Link to such titles
by clicking on Literature at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunBasedTitle
On Feb.
27, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration proposed to update the Nutrition Facts label for packaged
foods to reflect the latest scientific information, including the link between
diet and chronic diseases such as obesity and heart disease. The proposed label also would replace
out-of-date serving sizes to better align with how much people really eat, and
it would feature a fresh design to highlight key parts of the label such as
calories and serving sizes. Find
proposed changes and more information at http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm387418.htm
Mar. 3,
2014 Know your snow ‘Snirt,’ a
combination of snow and dirt, is that crusty, dusty, yucky-looking stuff along
the edges of highways and byways.
Earlier this winter, many farm fields in the area resembled white sand
dunes with what are known as ripples — marks on the surface of snow, similar to
ripples in sand, caused by wind. Then
there’s the handy dandy blizzard of snowy words online at Scrabble Finder: snowblowers, snowboard, snowbrushes, snowmobiles,
snowblinks, snowdrifts, snowflakes, snowmakers, snowscapes, snowshoe,
snowslides, snowstorms, snowballs, snowbanks, snowbelts, snowbound, snowdrift,
snowfall, snowfield, snowmaker, snowmelt, snowmold, snowplows, snowcaps. Janet Romaker
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/03/03/As-winter-plows-on-know-your-snow-terms.html
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